Zan Zar Zameen

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Strange occurances in West Afghanistan draw some of the school to a new challenge, and most importantly for Sooraya, a return to face her past.

Cast

Ahmal Farouk, Tommy Jones, Garrison Kane, Sooraya Qadir, John Allerdyce, Tabitha Smith, Paige Guthrie, Monet St.Croix, Jonothon Starsmore

Natasha Romanova, Kingmaker

Timing

September 6th-10th, 2007

Plot Summary

At started when a series of incidents begin to escalate in Afghanistan. First, a rise of protests and raiding by Pusthun nomadic tribes which forced the Taliban to impose tighter controls, that enflamed both the ethnic populations and the islamic moderates. The rise of a mutant hardline madrasah that seem to be pushing an islamic version of the Perservers tenets, also with a UN report detailing the resurgence of mutant kidnapping in the area. Finally when two Canadian citizens working at a Canadian disaster relief hospital ourside of a refugee camp are killed, an investigation begins in the region.

The RCMP, the Canadian federal police force, is granted the right to send investigators by an increasingly beleagured Taliban, and they re-activated Garrison Kane to head to Afghanistan. Knowing the futility of the job, Kane decided to enlist several members of the school for help. Surprisingly, young Sooraya approaches Kane directly. As a child, she lived through numerous raids of such types, and the increasing danger of the area, and the worry has made her decide that she needs to help make some kind of distance. Reluctantly, Kane agrees. Helping Sooraya in secret was Ahmal Farouk, who's own clandestine ties in the region provide secret assistance.

They travel to Afghanistan, quickly making themselves set up. It doesn't take long for the rumours of the slavers and the madrasah to be connected, as they have taken other mutants, and the raid on the Canadian hospital camp stole away two identified Afghani mutants. Tabitha and Tommy posed under Canadian identities in the camp, to watch for foriegn involvement and learn that the Canadians killed were investigating the slaver activity.

John's past with the Brotherhood is used as a lure, while he watches over Sooraya, who both enter the madrasah itself, and meet Abdul Sabur Taraki, the spiritual leader of the school. Monet and a husked Paige infiltrate the camp itself, speaking the language thanks to a temporary telepathic overwriting of their speech centres.

Kane, with Chamber's aid as a telepath, left for the countryside, to meet with Burhanuddin Masood, a tribal elder who provides them with some details about the slavers. At that meeting, they are also approached by Natasha Romanova, who links the slavers to an ex-KGB officer named Markov who has been orgnizing them covertly. Romanova reveals that Markov has been covertly funding the madarash in exchange for valuable mutant slaves for a growing human arms market.

Meanwhile, Taraki has decided to purge the camp once and for all. Sooraya gets the details of the raids, with many of the younger or weaker powered mutants being selected as glorious martyrs (suicide bombers) to cull them. Sooraya herself is offered an honoured position up front, as well as Pyro, who's supposed link to Magneto (an infidel but spirital kin) sees him into the plot.

Tabitha and Tommy, with the help of Sooraya and John mount a last ditch effort to save the camp, helped by the timely arrival of Jono and Kane. Monet and Paige are left to fight off a last minute lightning raid by the bought off guards into the camp, defeating them but revealing themselves not to be local.

With Taraki's men broken, and the slavers forced to flee, Kane passes over documentation linking Taraki with Markov, ensuring that between the Russians and the Afghani, both men will face trial. The documentation reveals another source, apparently the source of funding for both groups, as well as money for opposition groups like Masood's tribe.

Tabitha, John, Jono, Natasha and Garrison traveled into Mazer-e-Sharif, to find Qari Din Malik, the man behind the whole incident. The orchestrator of the funding turns out to be a moderate in the government; known for his support of a more secular democratic state. He reveals that the money came from unknown means, but after he was approached by men claiming to represent the Kingmaker. They simply asked him what he desired most, and provided means to it.

His wish to topple the Taliban was behind the scheme. The radical madrasah and the attack on the slavers would have forced the Taliban to either challenge the rest of the world, or go directly against the strongest advocates of extremist islam. The ensuing battle would have flooded funds and support to the moderate groups, who could have supplanted the Taliban government. Unfortunately, no evidence exists about this ' Kingmaker', and they leave just ahead of the arriving Afghani forces to arrest the man.

In the refugee camp, Sooraya comes on her most shocking discovery. Elements of her former tribe are inside, and able to lead her to a long awaited reunion with her mother.

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Plotrunner: Dex